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Friday, September 14, 2012

The Whirligigs of Summer- Part 1

~The Whirligigs of Summer~

Part I

Tom, Sharon, & Al.

I've been accumulating a bunch of great photos over the past couple of months, due to the great work by the many participants in our whirligig workshops. Tom, Sharon and Al created their gigs in May and it was a lot of fun as I recall.

This is a good example of how you can use both new and old items together on the same gig. Eventually being outdoors, everything will look weathered and old.

Old flatware is pretty labor intensive to drill. A tip is to try to bend the handle using a couple of fingers with gentle pressure. If it doesn't flex it will probably take a while to drill through. Also, some materials that are plastics or composites can be brittle when drilling. I believe the purple plates on the gig above were bamboo and had the tendency to crack.

Sharon had a challenge with her Stainless Mugs. We can't drill through stainless so it's on my "Don't Bring" list, but we made it work by creating metal straps that wrapped around the handles and attached to the lid of the red tin. Everyone needs to have one challenge during the process.